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Silence of the Hives

Deanna Pan wrote about bees, colony collapse and what beekeepers are doing about it. Below are my photographs of two commercial beekeepers who employ different methods of hive management. Mark T. Durst and Sons, photographed in Medical Lake, prefers to use a hands-off approach to hive management while Olson's Honey, photographed at their facility in Moses Lake, has used more active approaches, including using CO2 to keep their bees alive during the winter months. These photos were shot for a Pacific Northwest Inlander assignment.